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| 31172298 1341803409253935 4784052309411759443 n.jpg|A screenshot from an official teaser video for the book, released ahead of the books title, cover and color being revealed.
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| ===Illustrations===
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| Greg's neighbourhood enjoying the warm weather.jpg
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| Riding a camel to school.jpg
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| Greg tells his parents to move to a higher place due to global warming.jpg
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| The Heffley Family in underwater.jpg
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| Monster trapped inside ice caps as one of the ice cap collapses towards the sea.jpg
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| Night Janitor.jpg
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| Greg sees the bully shoves a kid.jpg
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| Greg sees the seat warming in the bathroom.jpg
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| Greg talks to the appliances.jpg
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| The future war.jpg
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| Greg sleepwalking with his robot legs to school.jpg
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| Asteroid came to wipe dinosaurs out.jpg
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| Frank Heffley attempting to kill cockroach with his left side shoe.jpg
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| Greg sweating out in class.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley sweating out during lunch.jpg
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| Dennis Tracton wooing for Italy Project in International Showcase.jpg
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| Greg is puzzled to see kids wearing weird clothes for the International Showcase.jpg
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| Greg sees Rowley wearing a crazy get-up for International Showcase.jpg
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| Rowley's England project.jpg
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| Incomplete project of Mysterious Malta.jpg
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| Greg tries telling his classmates where Malta is.jpg
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| Maltaproject.png
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| Greg wears a clothes from Lost and Found items for the Malta in International Showcase.jpg | | Greg wears a clothes from Lost and Found items for the Malta in International Showcase.jpg |
| Malta Food.jpg
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| International Showcase.jpg
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| The students presenting Brazil and Bulgaria got into an argument.jpg
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| Kids from elementary school tried telling Greg about Malta.jpg
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| Bad luck from Malta people.jpg
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| International Showcase kids started fighting one another.jpg
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| Susan sees the note from Greg's Social Studies teacher regarding his project in angry looks.jpg
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| Screen-Free Weekends.jpg
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| Rodrick, Greg and Manny misbehaving and made Susan and Frank puzzled.jpg
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| Susan talking to Greg and shocked.jpg
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| Greg shakes Frank's hands in front of Susan.jpg
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| Rowley giving Greg a tea during lunch.jpg
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| Fregley in the yard.jpg
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| Bad breath.jpg
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| Joseph.PNG
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| Mitchell Picket's store.jpg
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| Speed Bump.jpg
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| Speed Bump commits all the crimes.jpg
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| Duplex kids.jpg
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| Gino.jpg
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| Baby Gibson's yard.jpg
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| Mrs. Jimenez's Playgroup that is out of control.jpg
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| Anthony Denard.jpg
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| Sheldon Reyes in the truck snowplowing and accidentally crashed into a mailbox.jpg
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| Garza Twins.jpg
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| Marlee Sisters attacking postman.jpg
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| Emilia Greenwall.jpg
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| Latricia Hooks shoves Rodrick.jpg
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| Evelyn Trimble.jpg
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| Diagram of Surrey Street.jpg
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| Walking up the hill.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley playing football in the hill.jpg
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| Lower Surrey Street athletes.jpg
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| Lower Surrey Street Kids aren't allowed Upper Surrey Street Kids to join in to play.jpg
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| Greg in the bike.jpg
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| Greg and Upper Surrey Street Kids attacking Lower Surrey Street Kids with a snowball.jpg
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| Lower Surrey Street Kids being sneaky.jpg
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| Lower Surrey Street Kids wearing the same winter gear as Upper Surrey Street Kids.jpg
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| Trevor Nix stuck indoors year-round in the Lower Surrey Street.jpg
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| Face-to-face Lower Surrey Street and Upper Surrey Street people.jpg
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| The Heffley Family putting up the lost pig sign.jpg
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| Frank releases The Heffley's Pig into a kennel at pet boarding.jpg
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| The pig smashes a plate.jpg
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| The lady in obedience school calling Heffley Family the pig escaped.jpg
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| Greg hibernates.jpg
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| Greg tells his parents he will sleep until Christmas morning when he was young.jpg
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| Greg screws his sleep schedule.jpg
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| Mingo Kids after taking a long nap.jpg
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| Greg, Rodrick and Manny are fighting over the blanket.jpg
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| Blanket Schedule.jpg
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| Manny has two blankets in the sofa being greedy.jpg
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| Greg used the blanket to cover himself while watching and Rodrick hovering over him.jpg
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| Rodrick in the bathroom covering his blanket.jpg
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| Blanket User's Manual.jpg
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| Susan Heffley lectures the boys for not sharing the blanket.jpg
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| Greg's castle.jpg
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| Thermal Gear.jpg
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| Mannequin model.jpg
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| Mannequin making athletic poses.jpg
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| Greg relaxes in the bed and bath store for mannequin.jpg
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| Ancestors in the coldness.jpg
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| Greg playing video games.jpg
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| The Heffley Family attempting to melt ice with a hair dryer.jpg
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| Greg spits out the mushroom soup from Frank's thermos.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley waving to offer a ride.jpg
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| The kids during recess outdoors spitting one another.jpg
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| Indoor recess.jpg
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| Museum.jpg
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| The kids are spreading germs in hallway.jpg
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| Albert Sandy tells everyone about a guy who covered his sneeze.jpg
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| Albert Sandy tells everyone that a guy who survived without his head and works as a grocery bagger.jpg
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| Pets died being frozen in the school cafeteria's walk-in freezer.jpg
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| Teddy Silvetti.jpg
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| The girls have pictures of pop singers in their lockers.jpg
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| Notebook record of germs.jpg
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| Garza Twins in the laboratory while one of them coughing.jpg
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| Greg shots a spitball on one of the Garza Twins.jpg
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| Greg gives a Cherry Lozenges to the girls in Greg's grade.jpg
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| Greg's cherry lozenges are stolen.jpg
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| Greg in the bubble.jpg
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| Greg fakes from being sick.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley chattering cold.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley warming up in the pizza palace.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley in the library.jpg
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| Greg knocks on the neighbour's door as Rowley is desperate.jpg
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| Rowley is nervous trying to get a answer from a guy.jpg
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| Rowley pees behind a rock.jpg
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| Gramma knitting the mitten for Greg.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley attacking the guys with a snowball.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley walking with earmuffs on as the boys coming to attack them with snowballs.jpg
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| Fast metabolism.jpg
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| Do you have your homework assignment.jpg
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| Greg imagines without his nose.jpg
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| Greg has Frozen snot from his nose.jpg
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| Greg without lips.jpeg
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| Greg counts the pinky toes in preschool.jpg
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| Greg and the boys waiting for their turn to use the hand dryer in the bathroom.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley warming up with the meatball subs in the pizza place.jpg
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| Susan Heffley shows Greg the phone about Gramma and her friends in the beach.jpg
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| Sweetie on the beach.jpg
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| Greg shakes Gramma's goblin for the keys.jpg
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| Greg tells Rowley about entering Gramma's house.jpg
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| Gramma at home cranking up the heat with Greg and Rodrick.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley warming up in Gramma's oven in the kitchen.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley are shocked to see Mrs. McNeil.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley watching TV while covered.jpg
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| Hanging out with dryer.jpg
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| World's Best Grandma sweatshirt.jpg
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| Greg wears Sweetie's sweater and itching himself.jpg
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| Rowley tells Greg he heard burglar coming into Gramma's house.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley braced themselves.jpg
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| Rowley, Greg and Susan are screaming one another in Gramma's Basement.jpg
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| Susan drives home with Greg and Rowley.jpg
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| Susan talking to Greg about make-believe.jpg
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| Greg sees the snow falls outside his house.jpg
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| Lice.jpg
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| Hot classroom.jpg
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| Bullies.jpg
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| Gary Goofs Again.jpeg
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| Gary the weatherman got ambushed.jpg
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| Susan and Frank Heffley are watching Gary the weatherman whiffed and loved him.jpg
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| Mr. Morsels loves vegetables.jpg
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| Greg used Mr. Morsels to get rid of his peas.jpg | | Greg used Mr. Morsels to get rid of his peas.jpg |
| Waving with Mr. Morsels.jpg
| | The next Flat Stanley.jpg |
| Eric Reynolds and Dougie Finch Safety Patrol Captains got into a snowball fight.jpg
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| Boys attacking girls with snowballs.jpg
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| Boys walking past the Safety Patrol girls.jpg
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| Safety Patrol girls tweeting Greg to get off the road.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley walking on the sidewalk while clearing.jpg
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| Greg hits a fire hydrant that was buried in snow as he was walking with Rowley to school.jpg
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| Girl safety patrols.jpg
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| The girls have advantage over the boys were fresh and ready to go.jpg | |
| Greg imagines that the Safety Patrols Girls offering him a hot chocolate.jpg
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| No Snitching.jpg
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| Narc.jpg
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| Greg passes the note to Shane Browning.jpg
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| Boots melted.jpg
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| Chaos with socks.jpg
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| Teacher asked the kids put their socks inside the box.jpg
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| Bunch of barefooters.jpg
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| Socks.jpg
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| Jake McGough smells socks.jpg
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| Jake McGough gives the right socks to the Garza Twins.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley being ambushed by the guys who threw a snowball to them.jpg
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| Safety Patrols Girls being ambushed by the guys who attacked them with a snowball.jpg
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| Greg tells Frank and Susan about the snowmobile he wanted.jpg
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| Greg tells his parents about a few dogs trained to pull a sled.jpg
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| Greg has litter of puppies as his parents seen them.jpg
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| Greg pulls the burned boots out of the fireplace.jpg
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| Greg wears snowshoes with a pizza boxes and duct tape.jpg
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| Pizza boxes.jpg
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| Pizza boxes starting to get soggy.jpg
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| Rowley helps Greg to pull boxes off from Greg's sneakers.jpg
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| Guzmans' yard dogs sniffing around Greg and Rowley.jpg
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| Guzmans' Yard dogs attacking Greg and Rowley over the pizza boxes.jpg
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| Safety Patrol girls tweeting Greg to get off the road with whistles.jpg
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| Greg dries his feet with a dryer vent.jpg
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| Greg sees his students chattering cold inside.jpg
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| Night Janitor opens the window to circulate some fresh air.jpg
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| Teacher sees kids wearing their winter stuff.jpg
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| Mrs. Willey.jpg
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| Mrs. Willey watching Becky Cosgrove sits next to her desk as she was relaxing.jpg
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| Idiot Kids rowdy trying to get seat next to Mrs. Willey.jpg
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| Greg sees the student wearing costume for the school play.jpg
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| The kids shaking a vending machine.jpg
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| The kids raiding Science Lab for food.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley board the bus.jpg
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| Rowley shaking his head in the golf course.jpg
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| 13th Hole steep hill while sledging.jpg
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| Whirley Street Kids kicked Greg, Rowley and everyone out of the golf course.jpg
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| Whirly Street bus.jpg
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| A member of Whirley Street Kids throws a snowball on the bus.jpg
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| The bus driver lecturing Whirley Street Kids.jpg
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| Chattering cold on the bus.jpg
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| A member of Whirley Street Kids sees Greg on the bus.jpg
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| Who threw the snowball.jpg | | Who threw the snowball.jpg |
| Greg and Rowley alighted from the Whirley Street Kids bus.jpg
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| Whirley Street Kids coming towards Greg and Rowley.jpg
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| Goat Man.jpg
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| Rowley's version of Goat Man.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley walking through the wilderness.jpg
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| Greg is shocked to see footprints.jpg
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| Creek.jpg
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| Eating pack animals.jpg
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| Rowley tells Greg about beavers.jpg
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| Beaver cartoon.jpg
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| Greg sees the light from abandoned car.jpg
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| Abandoned cars.jpg
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| Greg finds Meckley Mingo's belt buckle.jpg
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| Grabbed.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley pulling Mr. Morsels out of the door handle.jpg
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| Mr. Morsels is left to die.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley hear a sound from Mingo Kids.jpg
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| Frank screeches his car to avoid hitting Greg and Rowley.jpg
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| Greg sleeping and dreaming about Mingo Kids chasing Greg.jpg
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| Greg sees snowfall heavily.jpg
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| Remote Control not working.jpg
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| Note from Susan.jpg
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| Greg shakes the box for batteries.jpg
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| Greg finishes loading the dishwasher.jpg
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| Congratulations.jpg
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| Greg relaxes in Frank and Susan's room.jpg
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| The next Flat Stanley.jpg
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| Eating sandwich as Manny sees Greg.jpg
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| Blech.jpg
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| Greg and Rodrick playing with sofa to avoid touching lava.jpg
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| The floor is lava.jpg
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| Manny avoids the floor while on top with Greg.jpg
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| Greg dresses up Manny with snow gear.jpg
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| Greg drops Manny down outside the snow.jpg
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| Manny escapes.jpg
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| Greg found Manny underneath in the snow.jpg
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| Greg and Manny shovelling the driveway.jpg
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| Young girls offering Greg a help to clear the driveway.jpg
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| Young girls clearing Greg's house driveway.jpg
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| Young girls moved all the snow back to driveway.jpg
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| Greg and Manny clearing up the driveway as their parents came home.jpg
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| Frank and Susan lectured Greg for not doing his chores as they saw Rodrick woke up at night.jpg
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| Greg wakes up and sees Susan holding his winter gear.jpg
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| Greg and Rodrick playing snow with Frank.jpg
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| Greg tells Susan about playing video games from vitamin D sun.jpg
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| Manny making snowmen in the front yard.jpg
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| Snow friends decorated with leaves.jpg
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| Fregley as a snowman.jpg
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| Greg relaxes in Jefferson Family's house.jpg
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| Greg sees Rowley outside his house.jpg
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| Upper Surrey Street Kids told the substitute snowplow driver.jpg
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| Not Robert.jpg
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| Fake Greg Heffley.jpg
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| Greg in the detention after Fake Greg Heffley tricked him.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley sledging.jpg
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| Upper Surrey Street Kids being ambushed by Lower Surrey Street Kids during sledging.jpg
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| Snowplow rumbles through the snow.jpg
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| Greg knocks the door as Susan sees her son and Rowley.jpg
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| Igloo buildling.jpg
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| Darkness in igloo.jpg
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| Greg gasps for the air from igloo.jpg
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| Neighborhood kids attacking Greg with snowballs on the igloo.jpg
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| The kids destroying Greg and Rowley's igloo.jpg
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| Greg telling Susan about what happened after the kids destroyed their igloo.jpg
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| Frank tells Greg and Rowley about the snow forts.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley coming up ideas on making a flag for the snow fort.jpg
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| Dead wolf flag.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley building a snow fort.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley hide in snow fort.jpg
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| Neighborhood kids attacking Greg and Rowley with snowballs on the snow fort.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley abandoned their snow fort.jpg
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| Frank tells Greg and Rowley to build a snow fort on high ground.jpg
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| Pouring boiling oil.jpg
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| Shopping List.jpg
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| Greg sees the street covered by the snow.jpg
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| Frank came back from his morning walk.jpg
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| Snowplow driver ambushed by Surrey Street Kids.jpg
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| Greg looks through the Frank's warfare books.jpg
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| Mitchell Picket's store 2.jpg
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| Sloppy Special.jpg
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| Snow forts.jpg
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| Garza Twins snow fort.jpg
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| Sub shop sign.jpg
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| Ernesto Gutierrez and Gabriel Johns in the snow fort opened fire to Greg and Rowley.jpg
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| Greg used binoculars to see Garza twins attacking the kids with snowballs.jpg
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| Latricia Hooks punch Speed Bump's face.jpg
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| Duplex kids in a snowball fight.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley waited to pounce for the snow fort.jpg
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| Greg used binoculars and spots a snow fort on a high ground.jpg
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| Baby Gibson's fort.jpg
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| Under attack.jpg
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| Greg, Baby Gibson and Rowley attacking kids with snowballs.jpg
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| Baby Gibson, Greg and Rowley are shocked to see Mrs. Jimenez's Playgroup children has popped out in Baby Gibson's fort.jpg
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| Marlee Sisters ready to attack Greg and Rowley.jpg
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| Sense of order gone.jpg | | Sense of order gone.jpg |
| Joseph O'Rourke got hit by an ice ball in his mouth and lost a couple of teeth.jpg
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| Discuss the rules.jpg
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| Lower Surrey Street Kids sneaked into the Upper Surrey Street Kids hill and sled down.jpg
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| Upper Surrey Street Kids building a snow fort together.jpg
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| Upper Surrey Street Kids hiding in their snow fort.jpg
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| Upper Surrey Street Kids attacking Lower Surrey Street Kids in the fort with snowballs.jpg
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| Victory.jpg
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| Lower Surrey Street Kids marching and armed to join the snowball fight.jpg
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| Hockey Stick from Lower Surrey Street Kids hits snowman in Upper Surrey Street Kids fort.jpg
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| Lower Surrey Street shielding from snowballs attack by Upper Surrey Street Kids.jpg
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| Upper Surrey Street Kids being ambushed by Lower Surrey Street Kids with Sloppy Specials.jpg
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| Lower Surrey Street Kids bringing ladders to climb Upper Surrey Street Kids fort during the snowball battle.jpg
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| Upper Surrey Street Kids pouring chocolate malt on Lower Surrey Street Kids climbing up the fort as they are gasping and coughing.jpg
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| Cans of slush.jpg
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| Fifth-Grade football team attacking the snow fort.jpg
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| Greg used binoculars and spots Lower Surrey Street Kids refuelling.jpg
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| Greg and Upper Surrey Street Kids are shocked to see some of them sucking snowballs.jpg
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| Pervis Gentry running down the hill during the snowball fight.jpg
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| Greg used binoculars and spots Lower Surrey Street Kids relaxing.jpg
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| Jacob Hoff tells everyone he wants to go home and offers them with snacks.jpg
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| Jacob Hoff in his house eating snacks in his bedroom.jpg
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| Paper aeroplanes with notes.jpg
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| Baby Gibson shaken up.jpg
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| Trevor Nix running and waving.jpg
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| Trevor Nix talking to Upper Surrey Street Kids.jpg
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| Trevor Nix being praised by Upper Surrey Street Kids.jpg
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| Attack plan.jpg
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| Sneak attack team.jpg
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| Greg used binoculars and spots a big group of kids making snowballs.jpg
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| Launching attack.jpg
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| Tricked.jpg
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| Lower Surrey Street Kids destroyed Upper Surrey Street Kids snow fort.jpg
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| Safety Patrol girls arrived Surrey Street and seeking revenge.jpg
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| Safety Patrol girls attacking Surrey Street Kids.jpg
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| THE EPICEST FIGHT EVER.png
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| Greg and Rowley hear a terrifying sound.jpg
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| Mingo Kids pouring out of the woods after a three-month nap.jpg
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| Meckley Mingo holding Mr. Morsels on a stick as a tribe symbol.jpg
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| Greg is shocked to see Meckley Mingo's belt buckle from his coat pocket.jpg
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| Mingo Kids charged to join the snowball battle.jpg
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| Greg and Rowley hide during the snowball fight.jpg
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| Earthquake.jpg
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| Children 21st Century.jpg
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| Snowplow plowing all the snow to end the battle.jpg
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| The aftermath of the snowball fight after the street plowed.jpg
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| The Heffley's Pig in the beach.jpg
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| Mitchell Picket's snowmobile.jpg
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| Trevor Nix playing hockey.jpg
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| Figure out how to survive.jpg
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown is the 13th book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The book was released October 30, 2018.
Main characters
Plot
When the schools get shut down because of a snowy day, the neighborhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Some rival groups fight over territory, Some rival groups build massive snow forts, and some rival groups stage epic snowball fights. In the cross-hairs are Greg Heffley and his trusty-true to the end-best friend, Rowley Jefferson.
It's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate against alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in a neighborhood meltdown. When the snow clears, will Greg and Rowley emerge as heroes? Or will they even survive to see another day? [1]
Synopsis
January
The story starts off by Greg saying how everybody is outside enjoying the warm weather, but Greg isn't because it's January and it doesn't feel right because it's the middle of winter. Greg then says about how the whole planet is warming up, and humans are to blame. But Greg says that he shouldn't be to blame, as he only recently got onto planet earth (being born). He then says about he hopes that it doesn't warm up too fast, or he would have to ride a camel to school. He then says he heard that the ice caps are melting and the seas is rising and he was trying to convince his parents to buy a house higher up on their hill so that they can avoid the water for longer, but his parents aren't too concerned. It makes Greg nervous that he is the only person in his family worried about it, and if they didn't do something about it now they would wish they did. The seas rising isn't the only thing that is making Greg nervous, as there could be things in the ice caps, and since they are melting they could be free. Greg then says that he saw a movie about a caveman that got frozen in ice, and thousands of years later when it melted he was still ALIVE. Greg didn't know if that could happen in real life, but if it could he says that if it could his night time janitor could be one.
Greg has to participate with his school on International Showcase Week. Back in November, when there was an International Showcase, he wanted the country to be assigned Italy but unfortunately too many people wanted to study Italy. After a random draw by his teacher, it was given to Dennis Tracton. So he was forced to make a project about Malta. However, he forgot all about it and has now to make it for the following day. Since Rowley refused to switch with him, Greg says that he was on his own and hoped his project will be fine.
In order to push kids asking questions away, he only pretended to speak Maltese and not English, but after this, a kid in his grade has parents who are from MALTA. Fortunately for him, the huge fight between Brazil and Bulgaria flared up again, and the bell rings dismissing school.
However, the situation worsens when Susan receives a letter that Greg has to make his project again. Plus, she forbids him for screens on weekends as well as Rodrick and Manny. All brothers decide to misbehave in order to prove her that "Screen-Free Weekends" aren't working.
Greg also says that his mom says that she wants him to make some new friends. But with the exception of Rowley, he has no chance to befriend an another child. Sometimes, he even has to walk in front of Fregley's house which is between his and Rowley's and it's difficult for him.
Greg then explains that the other kids in his street aren't good people for him to befriend, but the worst are the ones who live in Lower Surrey Street because their street part is flat and Greg lives in Upper Street. The two parts can't stand one another and you can't change from a part to the other as Trevor Nix is considered a traitor for moving to Lower Surrey Street.
Greg talks about the pig which was left at a kennel during their Christmas vacation, and when it gets mad about not going with them, Frank sends it to obedience school, but the person who runs the places calls him telling him the pig ESCAPED. Greg's family puts up posters to find it.
Greg wonders if a human being can hibernate, but Greg tells that he knows about The Mingos, who live in the woods don't show up in the winter until spring. Greg says so if they're NOT hibernating all winter, who knows what they're doing.
Greg talks about the Safety Patrols as he enjoyed it since it gave him access to hot chocolate. But he got kicked out of Safety Patrols, so he can't have any. Ever since that, he has been filling a thermos with hot chocolate.
He also tells how about dirty his neighbors are. When he is sick, he receives some cherry lozenges for his throat which makes him popular for girls.
Because of the cold, Greg and Rowley try to find a place where they could warm up. They finally manage to hide at Gramma's place while she is on vacation but they don't know that Susan actually comes sometimes in order to do her laundry.
To Greg's surprise, Susan isn't mad at him at all, even congratulating him for "using his imagination" rather than screens. Greg wishes she'd grounded him instead.
February
Greg explains that the Safety Patrol is very strict and report anyone who dares to throw a snowball during a school day. They also allow girls to walk on the road but don't allow boys to do it.
Greg says that he has no qualms about snitching and also that due to the snow, all students had to walk barefoot in the school.
The next day, Greg tries vainly to invent a new way to walk in the snow with pizza boxes with his shoes duct-taped to them after trying to warm up his winter boots, which end up melting into the bricks of the fireplace, but his idea fails. He also discovers that the janitor couldn't stand the sock smell and open the windows to let some fresh air in, but forgot to close the windows at the end of his shift, and now, it FREEZES inside.
So, the students try to keep warm and use their creativity. The principal then decides to dismiss school early, much to the children's delight but since Rowley and Greg have to walk on their way home, instead of taking the bus, they decide to borrow the Whirley Street Kids bus. At first, they can sit in the bus without being discovered until an incident with a snowball prompts the bus driver to stop the bus and refuse to start it again until the tattletale admits they did it. Greg looks in the back of the bus, hearing some kids, however an eight-grader realizes he wasn't from Whirley Street and all the kids on the bus blame it on Greg, forcing him and Rowley to get off the bus.
A few Whirley Street kids start running after Greg and Rowley, due to the kids on the bus lying about him throwing the snowball. They then decide to run from them, leading them into the woods.
Greg and Rowley are forced to run in the woods, which is where the Goat Man lives. Greg sees an light coming form an car, it was, but was actually coming from an broken car, Greg and Rowley then realize they're in the Mingo camp, after getting close to a car, Mr. Morsels gets stuck on the door handle of the car, resulting in Greg abandoning him. He and Rowley then dash out of the woods, where Frank sees them and then brakes.
The next day, Greg has the house for himself since Manny is at nursery, Rodrick sleeps and his parents are gone. But little does he know is Susan planned some chores for him. Since he isn't able to finish all of them before his parents return, his mother forces him to play on the snow and also calls Rowley's parents in order to prevent Greg from going to his house.
Without any option, Greg and Rowley build a fort which is quickly demolished. Frank gives them some advice, and both boys build an another fort but discover that almost every kid had the SAME idea. Now, they have to fight against the Lower Surrey Street Kids due to them sliding on their hill, but after a while, they're not ready to surrender and decide to refuel. Even Trevor Nix betrays the Upper Surrey Street Kids in order to possibly get accepted by the Lower Surrey Street Kids. After being double-crossed by Trevor, the Upper Surrey Street Kids snow fort gets demolished.
Then they hear The Safety Patrol who came there for revenge, resulting in the battle turning into the Surrey Street Kids versus the Safety Patrols, but some girls on Surrey Street SWITCH sides which makes it confusing. The Whirley Street Kids slide on the hill and join the battle. Then all the kids hear a sound, but Greg and Rowley knew it was the Mingo kids, looking like they woke up from a three-month nap. Greg realizes that he had Meckley's buckle in his pocket without realizing it. Since the kids hate the Mingo kids than everyone else, they turn to fight them. Greg decides he has had enough, and he and Rowley hide. And are worried that they won't survive. Then the ground shakes, but it turns out to be the snowplow drive, plowing all the snow and ends the battle.
After the battle, Greg can't remember what they started fighting over in the first place, and the weather warms up a lot. There is still snow on the ground, so Mitchell Pickett uses a snowmobile he spent with all the money he made. Trevor Nix gets accepted in Lower Surrey Street. Greg just hopes that everyone will be grateful at him if he can make a good strategy which could allow human people to live with robots. Greg says he's glad that there are people like the HERO type out there, but the world needs guys like HIM too. Greg says because if human beings are still around 500 million years from now, it's gonna be thanks to the Greg Heffley's of the world who figured out a way to SURVIVE.
Trivia
- When Greg talks about their Christmas vacation, on page 39, he is referring to their trip to Isla de Corales in The Getaway.
- This is the second purple book, the first being The Ugly Truth.
- This is the third book to not have the word "Diary" in yellow. The first two books are Dog Days and Hard Luck.
- However, this is the first odd-numbered book to not have the word "Diary" in yellow.
- This is the first book to use two different shades of one color. On the top half of the book, it is colored Blue-ish Dark Purple. While on the bottom half of the book, it is colored Red-ish Dark Purple.
- However, the overall color of the book is still Dark Purple, anyway.
- This is the second book where the words "of a Wimpy Kid" are in purple. The first is Old School.
- This is the first time the subtitle is 3D.
- This is the third time the spine uses these following two colors and they are: Dark Purple and True Blue. The other two books are Double Down which uses these following two colors: Red-Orange and Yellow and The Getaway which uses these following two colors: Azure and Apple Green.
- Ironically, the those books are in chronological order.
- This is the first book since Dog Days to be released in October.
- This is the fourth book to include a reptile-skin design.
- This is also the third book to include the new Amulet logo.
- This is the sixth book to feature Greg's trademark frown. The others were: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, Dog Days, The Ugly Truth, Old School, and The Getaway.
- This is the third book to have a resemblance to the story on the cover, after Dog Days. As purple and blue are "cool colours".
- In the UK variant of The Meltdown, the 13 on its spine is replaced with its picture for the front cover. (Greg as a snowman.)
- This is the sixth book to take place in winter. The first five books are Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules, The Third Wheel, Cabin Fever, and The Getaway.
- This book marks the second time the Safety Patrol are seen. The organization hasn't been seen or mentioned since the first book.
- This is the third time Greg screwed up a project without research.
- Fregley returns in this book. He hasn't appeared since Hard Luck.
- On page 164, Rowley and Greg come up with a name for their clan. Rowley suggests "Hufflepuff" which is a reference to the Harry Potter Hogwarts house, but Greg says he wants a more original name.
- Flat Stanley is mentioned on page 141. Greg says that he wants a TV on his ceiling, but he wants it installed by someone who knows what they're doing so he won't be "the next Flat Stanley."
- This also the second time Flat Stanley is mentioned. The first was from The Long Haul.
- This is one of few books in which Rodrick and Manny have much shorter roles and the second book after The Third Wheel in which except from flashbacks, Rodrick does not bully Greg.
- Greg mentions on page 215 that the pig is probably "somewhere warm by now, having the time of his life." This probably means the pig will probably not return in Book 14, but it is unknown yet.
- 802 words are written in all-capital letters in this book.
- This is the first book in the series to have 2 pages with no words and only drawings on them.
- Fregley's line, "Betcha I can find your 'tickle spot!'" was first used on his section in The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book.
- This is the sixth book to have two months each, books like Old School, Cabin Fever and The Third Wheel.
Errors
- At page 181, Joseph O'Rourke is a full name as "Joe O'Rourke." However, it is possible that Greg just shortened his name.
- Sweetie is shown to be not overweight, despite him being overweight in past books due to being fed too much by Gramma. However it is possible he probably lost weight and got normal again.
- On the page where the kids are all in the snowball fight, Latricia Hooks has a different look.
- State Order Fail: On page 16, after Malta is supposed to be the Marshall Islands, instead, after Malta is Mauritania.
- There is a kid all the way in the back on page 122 with a black jacket, however, in the next page he is wearing a white jacket.
- When Greg talks about last year he wants to go to school fast by using a sled and dogs to his mom and dad, Greg is much shorter.
Gallery
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Names in other languages
Language
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Name
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Meaning
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Japanese |
さすがに、へとへとだよ Sasuga ni, hetohetoda yo |
As Expected, It Is
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Spanish |
Frío fatal |
Fatal Cold
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French |
Totalement Givré! |
Totally Frosted!
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Dutch |
Vet koel |
Cold Fat
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German |
Eiskalt erwischt! |
Caught Freezing!
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Polish |
Jak po lodzie |
Like Ice
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